马丁·道尔（Martin Doyle） 普渡大学地貌学博士，现为杜克大学尼古拉斯环境学院（Nicholas School of the Environment）河流科学与政策教授，以及尼古拉斯环境对策学院（ Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions）的水资源政策项目主任。他多年来一直广泛参与美国的水资源利用与开发、水资源的财政和金融与环境保护方面的实践。

In a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina and the water wars in the west. Through his own travels and his encounters with experts all over the country—a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Can...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United...(展开全部)

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica, thin...(展开全部)

The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica, thin...(展开全部)

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversi...(展开全部)